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therefrom shall be deposited in adjacent embankments.

In all cases where in the opinion of the said
Engineer the same shall be necessary, timber, plank,
rubble stone, paving, flagging or piling shall be used
to such extent and in such manner as he shall
direct.

"Masonry"[underlined] shall be classified as follows:

Class No. 1. Hammer-dressed Masonry.

Class No. 2. Rubble Bridge Masonry.

Class No. 3. Concrete Masonry.

Class No. 4. Includes Culvert Masonry and
Foundation Wall for Trestle Work.

Class No. 5. Slope or Retaining Walls, including
paving in foundations.

Class No. 6. Brick Work.

Class No. 7. Blind or French Drains.

1st. "Hammer Dressed Masonry"[underlined] will embrace piers,
abutments for bridges, viaducts, and tunnel masonry,
and shall be of the best description of hammer-dress=
ed work with rock face, laid in regular courses, with
stone of uniform thickness, of the best quality, and
to be acceptable to the Engineer.

The beds of all face stone shall be in the width at
least equal to their rise, and shall be rough dress=
ed to a half inch joint.

The end joints shall be dressed back at least eight
inches from the face of the wall to a half-inch
joint.

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